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Chern classes of Schubert cells and varieties

Author(s): Paolo Aluffi; Leonardo Constantin Mihalcea
Journal: J. Algebraic Geom. 18 (2009), 63-100.
Posted: March 17, 2008
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Abstract: We give explicit formulas for the Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson classes of all Schubert varieties in the Grassmannian of $ d$-planes in a vector space, and conjecture that these classes are effective. We prove this is the case for $ d\le 2$.


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Additional Information:

Paolo Aluffi
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306
Email: aluffi@math.fsu.edu

Leonardo Constantin Mihalcea
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306
Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0320
Email: lmihalce@math.duke.edu

PII: S 1056-3911(08)00482-7
Received by editor(s): October 7, 2006
Received by editor(s) in revised form: March 2, 2007
Posted: March 17, 2008

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